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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
We're gonna take you all the way up until.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The end of this hour nine am Eastern time, six
o'clock Pacific. We obviously open up the show talking about
the NBA playoff action from last night, where the Oklahoma
City under bounce back after whatever the hell you called
that in Game three against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Okasee has
a three one series lead. They can close things out
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back at home and get back to the NBA Finals
after all these years. Meanwhile, Game four of the Eastern
Conference Finals is later on tonight. The good news is
Tyrese Haliburton's dad is about alloted back.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
In the building.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Apparently. I mean he's gonna be allowed back.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Wow, you think he was playing his ass off the
way he was playing. There could only be one reason
why Tyrese Haliburton was playing the way he was playing.
You gotta ball, you gotta ball out, you gotta be
the best, and then they'll let your pops back in, man.
Like that's somebody told him that. Like listen, man, I
ain't one to promise anything. But if you go out
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here and you ball like ball out of control, you
know what I mean, Like take last second shots, make
sure that it goes in and freaking like cinematic fashion,
put your hands on your throat like Reggie, you know
what I mean, Like, just do it like this, then
we could bring your dad back. Man. But I can't
promise you anything if you don't do at least that much,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, they just need the Pacers to show up in
the second half, and that would be fine.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
They might need that, you know what they do need
They might they might have needed to save that for
the championship round. Man, like, look, you get us into
the championship round, we'll let your dad back in.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Of course this is a bit, but I'm just saying,
if I was being serious, why not wait until this
series is over, because they could be in they like
I said in the first first segment of the first hour,
they could be in trouble. It just all depends on
if Big Kat comes into the locker room and he
feels that pressure to be a big man and not
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a shooting guard at seven foot. Yeah, that's going to
be the difference. So when we watch the game to night,
when y'all watching it, if y'all see Big Cat stopping
at the three point line when he runs down the court,
and that's where he's stopping every single time, they're gonna.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Lose if he gets that.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
If he's getting down there and he's posting up, or
he's at least waiting to get the ball to go
down low and and try to like really make it
an ugly game as a big being a seven footer
that has skill. Uh, then then Indiana could find themselves
in trouble. Man.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Pacers are a two and a half point favorite courtesy
of DraftKings. They're at game four hammer the Pacers. They
will they will cover that two and a half. That's
easy money right there, that easy money.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
It's a cute story.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
It was cute.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
The nick said.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Had a fun little run in the second half there,
Karl Anthony Towns all of a sudden, you know, found
found his game again. That's awesome. Indiana world this game
and they're gonna be.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Up three to one.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So now, if I was LeVar and I said that,
I'd get the image, you know, I'd get all that.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
But we're not LeVar, so we don't get.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That special knocks Loucks. That's not the same.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
It's not the same.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I just don't feel like you need to make our
listening audience like hate me because they love you, and
then you do that passive aggressive stuff and they're like, yeah,
I freaking hate LeVar too, you know what I mean,
Like you don't have.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
To do all that like a conversation and being had
around the w NBA right now.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh you know what I might have to who would
represent me? Would it be Ryan or RG through I
don't know which one would represent my best dentress.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Oh, it's it's the first time. It's way bigger than
than Ryan Clark.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's a bigger.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Discussion of over just I mean, and look, I guess
we're gonna find out now how the w NBA does
without Kaitlin Clark since she's out for two weeks start
with a quad injury. So the WNBA is in a
no win situation here because without her, there's a huge
fing that's not going to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And and look, maybe.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
There's some that don't follow close enough who they won't
watch because they simply or excuse me, they will watch
or tune in for maybe the first couple of games,
but they'll simply not know that she's out with an injury.
But as the ratings drop, they'll then have to identify
the fact that she's, you know, polarizing, like she's a
she's the type of player that people will tune in
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to watch. She must see television the way she plays
the game. And it's a harsh reality that the rest
of the WNBA is going to have to take in
and realize that she.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean, she brings the audience. She is what it's
all about.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
She's why they in the NFRE have so many primetime
games or games that are I should say are nationally televised.
So it's it's kind of a no win situation for
the WNBA because either you have to admit that and
it's going to offend or hurt the feelings of all
the other WNBA players, or you have to just try
to hopefully hide what the ratings are going to look
like when no one tunes in until she comes back.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Said that he tunes in to watch Brittany Grinder speak
Russian on the bench, and I don't know what that
meant or what he was trying to get get out there,
but he said that, you're just.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Continuing on with it. I could care less about the
w n B A. I mean, I look at it
for show prep. I look at it for show prep.
I did for Saturday Show for that. Otherwise you will
not You probably won't be able to to say I
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watch an entire w NBA game one singular time, including
if Clate Caitlin Clark is in the game. It just
does nothing for me. I'm sorry. People hype up people
hype up the w n B A. I see Q
trying to create some hype with it right now what
he's saying like, I'm not trying.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
To create hype.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
I mean, here's the thing is, when you're saying something
for me, and that's fine, I don't you know, I
don't really throw it on out of nowhere. If there's
nothing else on it, I'll watch. But you know, I'm
not like tuning in or being like, oh man, I
gotta finish up the back nine quick so I can
get back and watch the WNBA. And it's not a
sexist remark, but there's nothing on TV right now that
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I am taking away from my family life or anything
else going on in my life to go watch. I
literally last night was sitting there with my son. We're
like on the couch. I'm like, let's just watch Paltrol
because that's better than whatever else is on at this moment.
Before he goes to Bay.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
You just answered the question for me, like my TV
might be off, you know what I mean, Like, more
often than not, my TV is off. By the way,
I don't really watch a lot of TV. But the
idea of it is is when I do, I'm very intentional,
and when I'm watching sports, I'm pretty intentional as well.
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And people try like Whitlock is guilty of this. And Jason,
if you hear this, somebody tells you I said it.
You eat this one. You own it. Stop telling people
that the w n B a is going to overtake
the NBA. It's not, it's not, it never, it never will.
And and my dumb ass decided to watch some basketball,
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some w NBA basketball because I wanted to understand why
he was saying this, and within and I'm not exaggerating,
within one minute of watching that game, I turned it
off and shook my head and discussed at Jason Whitlock
forever making a statement such as that, now, I may
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catch a lot of flak from from MWNBA enthusiasts, and
probably would be rightfully, so I shouldn't be talking bad
or saying anything disparaging about the w NBA, the w
I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Are there w NBA enthusiasts, Oh yeah, there are?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Really there are?
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Oh yeah there they and and you know what, and
they're a part of a very very luential community that
can cancel you hint, hint. So at the end of
the day, you gotta be real careful, Like if you
hadn't noticed that people come for you. I'm asking questions here,
like you can get away with talking about Caitlyn Clark,
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but you can't get away with talking about anybody else.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh, got it.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
So all I'm.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Gonna say is is I'm gonna be careful because I
don't want to get canceled. But with that being said,
within one minute of watching a w NBA game, I
changed the channel because it was just not my cup
of tea. That's all. That's what I'll say. It just
wasn't for me.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
This is this is the part that I was gonna
bring up that I don't know if you if you're somebody,
because there is a portion of the population, whether it's
players in the in the w n b A or
it's people who cover the w n b A who
want to make it well, there's more to the league
than just Caitlyn Clark. There's more of the league than
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just and it's like, okay, true, but nobody's really interested
in that other part of the league, Like if we're
being honest, and so with her going out with the
injury and seeing what it's going to do to the numbers.
I don't know why it would be so difficult for
people within the league or people to cover the league
to just acknowledge, Hey, yeah, you're right, she's the selling
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point right now. Let's try and build around that and
promote that and grow that as opposed to divide everybody
because every storyline attached to her outside of just her
on the court. Like LaVar and I were making the
point yesterday, like do they have highlights from games? Because
all I hear is the racial battle lines that have
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been drawn between Like you don't. They're doing such a
terrible job promoting this sport as a sport, and all
they're doing is promoting it as a dividing line between
it's either black or it's white.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Or it's this and it's that.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
No, it's only black growth because it's all going towards
Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
I heard it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Charles Barkley said in an interview on Time that when
Magic Johnson got the you know, twenty five year, twenty
five million dollar contract, whatever, it was like players around
the league, like in the Sixers locker room, weren't mad.
They were celebrating because they realized, oh, that's good for
all of us. I don't know why people wouldn't look
at what she brings to the table and be like, hey,
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maybe we should try and develop this and push this
forward and not try and start a fight with her
every chance we get, or you know, a claim that
she gets preferential. Who cares like, let it, Let it
infuse some eyeballs and some revenue into the sport, and
it is better for everybody involved.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And instead there's just it's racial. It's this.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
It's that I don't understand. I don't know why you're
biting the hand that feeds you. It's weird, Honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I feel like though there's a lot of things that
do this.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
I mean, I don't know that the NBA props up
their players the way they should. I mean, they seem
to be more apt to like embrace everything outside of
the game of basketball.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Times.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
You know, so much is made about like the fashion
of the players coming into it, or debates about hey,
how does the hell that how does he compare to
MJ or Lebron. It's like the same old tiresome debates.
I mean, there's a lot of leagues that fall victim
to this where you start or stop focusing on the
main thing being the main thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Like if if you want to say that today's.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
NBA players are more talented than ever before, and then
then show us, like you have all these advanced stats, analytics,
different sports science behind it, you can you can show
it and prove it by there you know all sorts
of different you know, success rates in shooting, et cetera.
I mean, or or even why look at the difference
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in a number four like a power forward or a
stretch for and looking at their shooting ability from the
outside as compared to what was in the past and
grant a different era, different time for that game. But
still you can demonstrate some of those things and talking
about how the games evolved and educating more people on that.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And I don't know that the NBA does.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
A good job of that, So why would you suspect
that the WNBA would do any better of a job
highlighting anything other than what gets clicks. And so, so,
to go back to the initial comment, LeVar, when you're like, well,
you know, you guys are the media.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
No it's not.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
You can go on any website, go on ESPN, go
on CBS Sports, go on whatever website you want to
go on and you will see an article about Caitlin
Clark and the WNBA. It's not me, It's not like
other people out there. It is the companies behind it
are continuing to perpetuate whatever storylines are around it, so
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you know, it's what's out there to talk about, because
it's also what's on TV and it's kind of part
of it. But it's not like people are just conjuring
up a lot of these things. You know, this is
being stuff that's being pushed and being written about and
being covered extensively by a lot of the networks that
are involved in it.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
It sounds like conjuring to me, even if it's the
networks and the big companies out there. It's just it's
a miss for it. It's a note for me, dog
I get no no Hollywood trip for WNBA for me,
dog Like it's a noe for me. That's all I mean.
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I'm happy to get it off my chest because I've
never really said it as definitively as I'm saying it
right now.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
But I would feel horrible.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
About this if one of my daughters played basketball. I
really would because in my mind, and I gotta say,
my wife played basketball like she was a basketball player.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Do you want basketball player?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Don't care. I'm just not interested in women's basketball.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
I'm just not.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And you know, part of what you were talking about,
I think. I think if we were able to see
the personalities of not only the people in the w NBA,
but in the NBA again, we had this conversation. I'll
say we had it yesterday as well. Is the fact
that the NBA can't stand up to a Peyton Manning list,
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Tom Brady lists, you know, keep the names going, Drew breesless.
It can't stand up to the brand of the National
Football League because the Shield has been able to build
what the interest is connected to. The storylines run through
the Shield, and that's not what's taking place with other sports.
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And you do not have the personalities to drive the
game the way that it was driven when the NBA
had at least a competitiveness to it. When you know,
talking about them versus the nf fail. You do not
have the personality of a Shaquille O'Neil or a Kevin
Garnett or you or Charles Barkley. You just don't have
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the developed personalities that drive it.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
It gets a mess because don't you think I mean
you have HBO Hard Knocks, which I think is I mean,
I look, fantasy played a big role in football becoming
what it is as far as the stats, analytics and
people feeling they could build a roster like they're a
general manager. And there's fantasy in basketball too. I just
think for some reason it's become more popular in regards
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to football, but there's also other things that I think
have helped build it up. I mean, Hard Knocks to me,
was one of the greatest, like you know, shows created
to buy into the drama and the physicality and the
emotional tool that training camp would take on players, and
then a decision that organizations had to make about the
livelihood of someone whether or not they're going to make
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the team or not not. Some of that's you know,
kind of gone to the wayside because they don't want
it to appear that cutthroat, even though that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But it's like you don't see that with.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
The NBA, which I know, again a little different circumstances,
but I think an end season, you know HBO following
a team or during the playoffs, following a team during
a playoff run, the emotions of what it feels like
if you're covering and got some of that behind the
scenes access like from Anthony Edwards or from Chris Finch
and hearing some of those conversations come out, that would
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be incredible, Like that would be something that would sign.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Me up for every single day of the week to watch.
But we don't get that.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
And look, I don't know if it's because they don't
they don't feel like it would hit with an audience,
even though I think it would. I don't know if
it's because of the name. You know, you have hard
Knocks for football, if it was hard Wood. Unfortunately, I
believe that was actually up. That was like Edwood, who
is a seventies adult film star, and I'm sure you
can purchase his three disc blu ray still out there.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Somewhere, but I'm not sure if.
Speaker 8 (17:59):
There's a lack of of of title for it, so
you can't go Hardwood.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You gotta get to hard something else.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
And it just actually gave Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I think that I think that that that hits the mark.
That's good, that's intriguing. That's just be careful.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
You might you might stumble across ed Wood and yeah,
stumble on to it.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Please what happens when you stumbled onto the horror.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
You know?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Do you know I had to bring that all the
way around just to get a laugh out of Jonas,
because I knew if I didn't, if I didn't somehow
find a way of tying this back to an adult
film star, I cannot get a truck he was going
to do.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
No, he doesn't know about Edward. He doesn't.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
He doesn't have to know about.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I'm not familiar with Edward's work. No, not familiar.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I don't either, just so for the record, but I'm
looking him up right now.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
So I actually had to look up to see if
there was any show called Hardwood.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So that HBO R Knocks couldn't create the NBA version
of this.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
So yeah, I mean, and I'm not even going down
the rabbit hole of ideas I had for what the
w NBA would call their version of hard Knocks.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
So we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
But there was there was a bunch of different ideas
I had, and none of them could actually suit radio.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
So we're stuck.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
We're stuck on Edwood.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We're all just sitting on one million ac DC.
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Up next, though, we are going to hear from our guy,
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Speaker 9 (19:58):
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Speaker 4 (20:12):
Two Pros and a Cup of Joe, Fox Sports Radio,
LeVar Arrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas excuse me, damn Jonas Knox
with you here? I fate that coming up in a
little over fifteen minutes from now, we are going to
have another edition of Lee's Leftovers that will be yours
here on Fox Sports Radio. It is a Tuesday at
this time. Tuesdays at this time have a tradition. That
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tradition is the one and only Pete Prisco, Pete Prisco's
senior NFL columnist for CBS Sports CBS Sports HQ analyst
and apparently he has pissed off. He is pissed off
yet again. You can find him on x if you
want some of that smoke at Prisco, CBS. Peter, you
pissed about the Panthers game last night? What's going on?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Well, I mean, they should have closed them out last night,
but you got three of your best players not.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
Playing, and they didn't play very well.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
You could tell right from the start that they weren't
playing as well as Carolina. And if Carolina is a
better team than what they showed in the first three games.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
So yeah, yeah, am I angry?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Am I worried?
Speaker 10 (21:12):
No?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Is that the team David Teperon's, Is that correct, Pete? No,
he's own He doesn't own Carolina's hockey team.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I don't think so, Okay, I don't he also a
separate team and they've done well lately.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
No, Well, come on, let's not get into that right now.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
It's not football season yet, Pete's Let's give them the
twenty twenty five offseason.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
See what they become this season. I do want to
go back to hockey.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Can you explain to people, because there's some out there
who they see the rats when they're throwing the ice
when the Florida Panthers play, and they don't know what
that means. Can you explain the history of that to
people out there?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Way back in the day.
Speaker 10 (21:51):
The first time that they went to the Cup, they
were playing in the old Miami Arena and after one
of the games, there was a rat in the locker room, nice,
and one of the guys killed it with his stick.
Nice and so ever since then, that's where the rats are.
That's the origin of the rats, and that's kind of
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carried over, but that that's where it started. And it
looks it's it's a good tradition, it's funny, and they
throw them all on the ice.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
But that that's where it started to think about that
that guy actually killed him with a stick.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
What a mean man?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Why would okay, he's mean for killing the rat?
Speaker 10 (22:30):
I mean, I mean which.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Probably probably rat traps all over the place and they
probably died a much slower, much more scruciating death, you know,
being up in that that you know place, eating that poison.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
And stuff like, what would you have done to the
skunk if you had gotten your hands on that?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I wouldn't have got my hands on him because that
skunk was was like exceptional with the spray, very regular,
like surgical. I wasn't gonna get I wasn't gonna get
close enough. My dog was looking at me, I was
looking at him. He was taking the brunt of it.
It was bad, Pete, it was bad. It traumatized him.
He saw him the other night by the way and
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was going nuts, like was losing it. He was crawling,
he was walking across the uh, the gate or whatever,
and yeah, stick saw him.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
He traps. So you can take care of that skunk.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I mean, I didn't invest in looking into that. I
just felt like, you know, he's he's a wild animal
and he's allowed to or she is allowed to live
their life until it, like you know, comes to a
stick being involved, or the dog gets a hold of it.
Something something could happen. You just never know. But I
just let it. Let it be, you know what I mean,
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Let it be what's going to be. You know, That's
how I see it.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
And what are the odds in Vegas and you're getting
sprayed again?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
I think about it.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I think about it often every time, every time the
sun starts to go down, I think about if I
go out here and I sit and I have a
cigar or smoking, a hooping with my dog.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
In the fat traumatized by it.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
It's stunk, Pete. And speaking of.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Let me transition into this. We had the conversation of
Aaron Rodgers. It continues to be the conversation when he
gets to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. It's starting to stink
a little bit to me, Pete. And it's starting to
reek of could this be a tremendous set up for
a letdown in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
And what is the fallout?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
And I know I might sound negative, but I'm just
if I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
He got hurt the first year.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
He wasn't bad the second year statistically, but record wise
they were poor. I don't have any real reason to
think that Aaron Rodgers is going to make Pittsburgh a
better football team, but there's the chance that he could.
What's your like, what's your take on it?
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Like?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Is this the way it's setting up and the wait
for Aaron Rodgers to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers that
I mean, what what's your opinion on it?
Speaker 11 (25:09):
Well, you say a letdown? You let down in him?
Speaker 10 (25:11):
Playing or let down in him not playing.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
I mean, what do you mean?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
I mean, I mean, if he doesn't play, they're gonna
play with Mason Rudolf. I mean, that's got to let down.
That's that's the end of the season. Well, I mean
you think, what what Mason Rudolph is going to take
that team to the playoff.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Okay, well, so that's that's so that's I.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
Just wanted a letdown. Are they better off with Aaron
Rodgers than with Mason Rudolph or Will Howard? Absolutely one
hundred percent. And if you go back into last year,
the last five six games of the year, he actually
played good football. Aaron Rodgers. I don't think he was
ever healthy. Remember all that talk you trying to come
back in November December of the year before, Sure he was.
He wasn't even healthy early last year. He looked healthier
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down the stretch. He played much better.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Aaron Rodgers at his age.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
Coming off that injury two years ago, is still significantly
better than Mason Rudolph. And by the way, Brady Quinn
at his age right now might be better than Mason Layoffs.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
First off, I've already said that I'm washed up.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Uh and and I don't want any part of that
or this flag football Olympic thing, which is even worth
talking about, Pete when this guy is like, now we've
earned it, We've brought the sport to this point.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
NFL players shouldn't be allowed to come into this. Do
you look at this chuckle?
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Did you see you see the video of him throwing
a pass? Yes, dude, come on, But you know the
reality is, though, Brady, that group that plays all that
flag football could probably go into the Olympics and win
the gold medal. Why would an NFL Why would an
NFL player play in the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
That's the dumbest gold medal, a gold medal, the gold
when of.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
The Olympics, one of the Olympic twenty eight?
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Yeah, but when are they They're they're in August, the Sunday.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The summer, the summer training camp. No, they're in July.
Likely they're in July.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
No, it's like July.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
What do you tell me, dude? My wife just went
last year, moron.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
I was just there dad that anyway, So anyway, so
it's July, isn't that when training camp is the end
of July.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
There's some sports, there's some sports that actually finish like
they're almost finishing, when like the opening.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Ceremonies hits like they finished pretty close to the.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Beginning of it.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Okay, but here's the here's the problem. Okay, let's take
that aside. At first, it's just being in training camp.
You gotta be ready to play. B What if somebody
gets hurt.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Pete, There's always that risk, and they'll have you know,
they can figure that out.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Here's what I would have done you. No, you know,
hold on, hold on.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
You've covered the NFL long enough to remember when dudes
had second jobs and they probably had a case of
beer after every day in training canty. And yet now
you're advocating.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
For this whole. Well, they're going to beer in shape
for trading camp. Come on, Pete.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Yeah, but you know you're not gonna be You're gonna
be sitting in your house drinking some beers. You're not
gonna be planting and cutting your leg, you know, putting
your foot in the ground and making moves. Do you
remember Robert Edwards?
Speaker 11 (28:15):
Do you remember that.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Cautionary tale about Robert Edwards? Yeah, I mean it was
never the same.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
It was for that matter. I remember seeing you down
off Los Soles after a few drinks. You were a
liability after that, so you know any beer involved.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
By the way, I'm not going to argue that, but
I didn't have to plant my foot in the ground
the next day and try and stand on a podium
because I beat Great Britain's worst in France's worst.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (28:39):
That's the thing.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
I said this the other day in our office, I say,
can you imagine this?
Speaker 10 (28:42):
Here we go, we go to the podium for the
metal ceremony, got Great Britain won the sober and France
won the bronze, and then you got the United States.
And then here comes one of the best players in
the NFL limping onto the podium to get his medal.
But he's not gonna play in the season in twenty
twenty eight.
Speaker 11 (28:57):
Okay with that?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I mean I think if asked if the players okay
with that, the owners.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Have already allowed they're okay with it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
The owner's already allowed it. It's not off to the players.
Speaker 11 (29:07):
Then it's just I wouldn't play.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
I wouldn't play. I'm just not playing gold medal.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well, you also a gold medal.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
You're also a trenches guy like there's no lineman, there's
no biting ankles or grabbing grundles or whatever you were doing, like,
there's none.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Of that involved.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, Pete, don't be a moron. Okay, come on off, Pete.
I do have a question for you. Come on on
the the tush push, which I know you are. You
are sick and tired of hearing about and we have
you know we're moving on. It's going to be here
next year. But I am curious, do you believe and
this isn't a direct shot at your Jacksonville Jaguars or
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Tennessee or if this was a play that was done
by Jacksonville, Tennessee, insert another franchise that isn't the Eagles
and isn't as loud about it as Philly is. Is
it even getting the coverage or the discussion or even
being kicked around of the play getting banned at all?
Speaker 10 (30:08):
Probably not. But you've got a super Bowl winning team
that used it to its advantage. So I think that
highlights it and makes it even that much more prominent
in people's minds. So now that, yeah, I mean, look
who was used by you know, a city that gets
no attention by Jacksonville. Sure, absolutely, wouldn't be.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
The same thing.
Speaker 11 (30:25):
So yeah, I hate the play.
Speaker 10 (30:27):
I mean, I'm gonna sit there. I told you guys
that I can't stand to play. I think it's boring.
I think it's a dumb play. I don't like watching it.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
But again, I respect the fact that.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
They've made it theirs and they've made it work, and
they wrap it and they work on it until somebody
figures out a way to stop it.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
And by the way, Jacksonville was actually one.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
Of the teams that did stop it last year, surprisingly
because the only damn thing they did very well.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Wow, I found a way to work well because he's.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Take shots that you gotta take shots. At the previous
regime it was terrible.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
But I think when you when you look at Philadelphia,
I gave a lot of credit to them because and
by the way, this whole talk of injury, they've had
had one injury on that play, Eagles not one zero.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Well, yeah, it only takes one though, that could be
catastrophic right before they I.
Speaker 10 (31:12):
Hate to play, Brady, I hate to play. I think
they should get it out. I'm one hundred percent to
be honest with you. With the League office pushing Court
last week, I really thought it was going to get
out because they hate to play without the coaches and
gms there, and it didn't. I was a little surprised
that it did not.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
To me, it's more of a bad look. I honestly
really don't care one way or another. I don't think
it looks like a football play. But what bothers me
is if they're like, well, we took out the rule
because we didn't feel like we could properly officiate it,
It's like, dude, you have so many TV cameras now
and angles that how could you not see it? How
could you not make it a reviewable call and implement
(31:50):
that rule. If that's the only reason you took it
out in the first place, then why wouldn't you just
put it back in and just say it's a reviewable play.
So if we if it appears that someone was aiding
the runner, then we're going to look at it and
that would be able to fix it rather quickly.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I do want to ask you this, though, Pete, what
would you be willing.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
Isn't it the kind of the sun of the bush push.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That comes up? I don't think you need to give
Matt and regiment.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I'm just saying I don't think you need to give
them that much credit and act like those guys started it.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
I think he was just making sure he took a.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
I've always said this to Matt. I was like, they
didn't have to push me to have me get through there.
I would just made it through that that actually started
when Liner stopped doing backsquats and need to have the
leg drive to be able a bush in there in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Pete, what would you be going to bet ane minute?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Yeah, yeah, what would you be willing to bet that
Aaron Rodgers is starting and playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers
next year? Like you obviously are nice enough to come
on with this weekly even though I think she's going
on more. But but in all seriousness, what would you
going to bet that he's starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers
when it's all said done this year?
Speaker 10 (33:05):
I mean, if I had to put the odds on it,
I'd say eighty five fifteen he starting.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
Okay, So I think LeVar is on the fence about this.
We talked about this earlier in today's show. Can you
make a bet?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Then?
Speaker 8 (33:19):
If LeVar loses and I don't want to speak for you, LeVar,
But I think this is a good promotion.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You send Pete some of your stick City Lagger? Is
that fair?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (33:30):
If Pete wins, he sends you whatever you'd like in
exchange for that?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Well, whatever, Pete, what's your beer?
Speaker 7 (33:36):
What's your beer for Tenning lotion?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
How about that? Whatever he uses that. I want you
to send me a case of that piece.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
I'll send you some skunk cologne or something like that. Okay,
so you can follow you everywhere. By the way, no,
first off, you don't have to send me the lawyer.
You can send me the beer I actually drink.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
Is my beer? Thank you, sir?
Speaker 11 (34:06):
We will you know what I get.
Speaker 10 (34:09):
I'm happy you have a beer and everything. I just
want a normal, every day light beer that's.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Always normal, that's not light.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
I don't want to I.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
Don't want to go into a brew pub and say, hey,
I'd like to have Miller Light or or whatever, and
they say, we only have we only have the beer
on our tap, which is like Gator tails, smells like
rat you know, Pete, And.
Speaker 11 (34:34):
It's going to be great. So every one of every
one of.
Speaker 10 (34:36):
Those pups you know exactly what I'm talking about we don't.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
Have Here's the thing, Pete, We're gonna have Lee because
Lee visits a bar or liquor store every day, so
it should not be an issue for Lee to be
able to send you some sort of beer alcohol right.
Speaker 11 (34:52):
Well, after that story, you told that when we were
at the Super Bowl, I.
Speaker 10 (34:55):
Would be visiting a bar for liquor store every day.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Pete, we appreciate it. Always fun. We'll do it again
next week and go cats.
Speaker 11 (35:08):
Aaron Rodgers is going to play.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
I do.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
He's on the fence.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
I'll just on the fence on how it's going to
work out.
Speaker 10 (35:14):
Yeah, well I don't know how it's gonna work out either,
but I think he's playing, and I think he loves
the attention.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
That's exactly what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
At Prisco CBS.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
If you watch, if you want, if you want some
of that smoke on social media, it is at Prisco
CBS is where you can find Pete.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Prisco.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Coming up next here, though, we are going to close
up shop with another edition of Lee's Leftovers.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
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Speaker 9 (35:38):
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Speaker 9 (36:13):
These might smell a little fun, sound incredible, but they're
still good.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Time to find out what's left.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
It's Lee's lake, all right, the lap?
Speaker 6 (36:24):
What do we got?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
We got game four tonight? Nick said, Pacers, Pacers two
and a half point favorites. Who you guys got tonight?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Pacers?
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Mister Halliburton is back in the house creating hapic.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I've got the Pacers tonight when swat guys, come on?
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
I don't need that one.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Come on, Brady, what are your thoughts on Lee using
this as one of his leftovers?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Got to start off the segment.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
It's today's day off, day off today.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Never a day off for you after a forty weekend.
Speaker 7 (37:01):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Yeah, come on, it is Tuesday. You know who I'm
gonna take.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
I'm gonna take the tree Rali.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That was a hard convincing when you say it that way.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Did I get my pick for the game? Who are
you picking? The me tree Ravioli?
Speaker 6 (37:18):
That's what I'll take it sticks picks, yell.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
He's going to win tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Who they yup?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Is that guy he's writing about us?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Cereal?
Speaker 6 (37:31):
What else we got?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Lee?
Speaker 9 (37:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Guys, did you get a pig UoN us?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I mean I did a while ago to Pacers Knocks Flocks.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
I'm taking the knicks, by the way, but you don't
have to do that. I already picked Ravioli, So let's
go freaking and big congrats out there to the German
Tom Copy, who was victorious at the Gloucester Shure. He's
rolling events for the second year in a row.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
Did you see the spilled one?
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Dude took up the hill to get him immediately? Yeah,
my man took off like Superman.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
But by the way, he didn't fall.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
He vanished that guy's dand
Speaker 5 (38:10):
It shouldn't be funny, but he chose to do it.